Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Putin Now World Leader of Permanent Counter-Revolution Against Globalism, Larin Says

Paul
Goble

Staunton, March 21 – Those who say
Putin does not have a core ideology and program of action are wrong, Aleksey
Larin says. They cannot see that he is committed to a permanent
counter-revolution against globalism and because of that has become the leader
of all those who reject the homogenizing consequences of that trend.

It was inevitable, the Russian
commentator says, that globalism would generate opposition and that it would
crystallize around a leader like Putin capable of feeling that discontent
himself and capable of articulating that opposition and using his position to
mobilize others (nalin.ru/putin-vozhd-mirovoj-kontrrevolyucii-6418).

Unlike revolutionaries who are “always
idealists,” Larin argues, “counter-revolutionaries are realists. A century ago
Russia gave the world revolutionary idealists and the world was shaken. Now, in
large measure thanks to its own bitter experience, Russia has become a bastion
of counter-revolution and Vladimir Putin its leader and symbol.”

Because any real revolution is
inevitably worldwide so too must the counter-revolution be. And that is what is
happening now. Vladimir Putin long ago became the idol of all rightwing
nationalists and conservatives who want to preserve or restore traditional
identities, the good old family, country, and faith and do not feel themselves
to be retrogrades or degenerates.”

Putin is hardly the first to
articulate this, but because he is the leader of a nuclear power, he was the
first to be listened to and that has allowed him to resist globalism while
holding fast to national traditions, to defend sovereignty, and thus to allow
people to live as they did and want to again.

Implementing that program of
permanent counter-revolution isn’t easy or cheap, “but the chance to live in
one’s own way is for many people more significant. And these people recognize
as their leader Vladimir Putin, a man who gave such a chance first to Russia
and now to the etire world, from the Donbass and Syria to Italy and America.”

Russians who fled their own country
and now have experienced globalism first hand are “now voting for Putin, for
the leader of the counter-revolution, for a man who gives them the hope that
they can remain themselves,” Larin continues.

Not surprisingly, “for this he is
loved and hated, cursed and glorified.” But “for this he has entered into world
and not only Russian history.When the
world has gone insane, all that is needed to look outstanding is to preserve
one’s good sense.Despite everything,”
the Russian commentator says..